Dear Prudence,
I am a middle-aged, unmarried man. I have what some people would consider an unusual sense of humor that involves a lot of wordplay. Also, I tend to be very literal. A few years ago, I tried my hand at online dating and had a phone conversation with a woman I’d contacted. At one point she asked me, “Are you a glass-half-full kind of guy or a glass-half-empty kind of guy?” I answered, “I use paper cups,” which was 100 percent true, not an attempt at humor, and me being literal. That was our only conversation. Was I wrong to give that response?
—Lives at the Seashore, So I’m Very Littoral